1. World War I and 1920s Consumerism
... through the words of his fictional character Lieutenant Henry, in A Farewell to Arms. Henry describes the words "sacred," "glorious," and "sacrifice" as meaningless because people fail to fulfill their meanings (Document G). People didn't want to risk more American lives and money to fight a war that had nothing to do with them in the first place. President Woodrow Wilson wrote ... complications (Dorrance). The post-war period saw the increase in anti-immigration sentiment within American society. Many immigrants from Europe had their homelands ravaged by the war and sought to come to Am...
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